“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'” MenSaidTwoBookWantedJobsForgetHellWeekPagesTwentiesSorryComicTake MeComic BookI'm SorrySpidersForget ItMaking TimeSpider ManTwo Jobs Author:John Romita, Sr.
“If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!” IfsTryingCan DoHurtHellMonthsTenPagesIt HurtsYou Can Do ItScreenplays Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'” ThinkingTryingYearsEnoughHellPagesSmartPicksSophisticatedUlysses Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.” ThinkingEndsEducationHellPagesProofChecks Author:Edward Teller
“If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book on the top of every single page? Does anyone get halfway through a book, What the hell am I reading?” IfsDoeBookReadingHellPagesSmartTitlesHalfway Author:Brian Regan
“I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.” WantWould BeHellCostPagesDefinitionsEditorsManuscripts Author:Dean Koontz
“The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.” KnowsHellPagesTendenciesCounting Author:Rod Serling
“I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.” KnowsTryingDoeI CanHellScenePaperPagesFrustratingWords On Paper Author:George R. R. Martin